ARTS
& ENTERTAINMENT

Pirate Church: S***storm (The West Australian) Feb 3 – (Review) Local comedians Chris
Bedding and Werzel Montague have hit on a winning formula with Pirate Church.

INTERNATIONAL
STORIES

Abuse

Pope orders bishops to
co-operate with sex abuse commission (Brisbane Times) Feb 6 - Vatican City: Pope Francis has ordered Roman Catholic bishops around
the world to co-operate as a matter of priority with a commission he set up to
protect children from sexual abuse by clerics, even if it unearths new
scandals.

Vatican opens barber
shop for homeless (news.com.au) Feb 7 - THE Vatican says it has finished renovations on public restrooms just
off St Peter's Square that will include three showers and a free barber shop
for the city's neediest.

Islam

Indonesia's minorities
hope for a safer future under Widodo (The West Australian) Feb 5 - Jakarta (Indonesia) (AFP) - Indonesian Ahmadis are no strangers to
persecution, with attacks and discrimination rife, but leader Iskandar Gumay
hopes better days are ahead for the minority Muslim sect under new President
Joko Widodo.

Judaism

For fearful Jews, 'magic
kippa' blends into hair (The West
Australian) Feb 5 - Rehovot (Israel) (AFP) - At his unisex hairdresser's shop in central
Israel, Shalom Koresh carefully clips to a boy's head his latest business
innovation -- a discreet skullcap for Jews fearful of anti-Semitic attacks.

‘ISIS is fighting
Islamic values’ (The Australian)
Feb 6 - AMMAN: Iraq last night lifted the curfew in Baghdad in a tentative sign
of the military tide turning against Islamic State, as Jordan’s King Abdullah
II vowed yesterday to wage a “harsh” war against the Sunni extremists who
burned a Jordanian pilot alive in a cage.

Other

Number of Charlie Hebdo
subscribers up 20-fold after attacks (The West Australian) Feb 4 - Paris (AFP) - The number of subscribers to Charlie Hebdo, which was hit
by a deadly jihadist attack last month, has risen from 10,000 before the
assault to more than 200,000, the magazine's co-manager said Tuesday.

Love Commandos helping Indian
couples escape prejudice (The
West Australian) Feb 8 - New Delhi (AFP) - Vandna left everything behind when she fled her
parents' home in India to be with the man she loved, giving up family, friends
and the studies she hoped would help her become a teacher.